[andrewla]

Out of curiosity, what does a UK ballot look like? I found [1], is that typical?

Part of the problem might be one of ballot design. A US ballot is typically considerably more complicated than that. Here's one from New York [2]. There will be many races; in a presidential election there will be president, usually senator, representative, governor, state senator, local councilman, and assorted other offices. At least in New York State, the candidates will be presented by party, so a single candidate may be on the ballot multiple times.

Nobody is counting the US one by hand overnight; not without some pretty comprehensive redesigns of the ballot.

[1] https://www.gravesham.gov.uk/home/elections-and-voting/guide...

[2] http://www.otsegocounty.com/depts/boe/images/WO.jpg

[makomk]

That's one of the simpler UK ballots. Some of our council elections allow us to elect more than one candidate, and our mayoral and police and crime commissioner elections uses the rather oddball supplementary vote system.

[JetSpiegel]

> http://www.otsegocounty.com/depts/boe/images/WO.jpg

This is insane.

The Democrats ran in 4 "parties", and the Republicans in 3 "parties", for governor. The Libertarian party nominated 2 separate sets of governor/deputy governor.

The non main parties nominated the same people (sometimes), but not for some categories, randomly. Some people are nominated on different parties that nominate different people for governor.

Ultimately, it's a 2-person race in most posts, and a single nomination for coroner. Why not have 14 simple ballots with a straight choice?